Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:04:32 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Symify crash
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> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 13:23:14 +0200
> From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
> 
> Maybe it is time to switch to stabs as a default debugging format
> and use Eli's bfdsymify?

You don't need to switch to stabs in order to use bfdsymify.  It
understands all debug formats for which BFD was configured.  That was
the whole point of building it.

> FWIW, I've been using it for three months without seeing a single
> problem.

I have a couple of unresolved issues with it: for example, it
sometimes (very rarely) prints wrong line numbers.  Also, I didn't see
any simple way of making the part which reads the traceback from
screen system-independent (more accurately, with what to replace it on
other systems), which prevented me from sending the patches to the
Binutils maintainer.  There's also a (rather trivial) matter of
changing the display code as we did in SYMIFY for v2.03, so that long
C++ names and/or long source file names don't blow up the stack and
don't wrap around the display line.

Unfortunately, I have no time lately to finish this, so if someone
wants to take over, please do.